Zipang: popularising the literature of ancient Iraq through the art of oral storytelling

[First posted in AWOL 2 October 2017, updated 25 December 2019]

Zipang: popularising the literature of ancient Iraq through the art of oral storytelling

 

Vision

The literature of Mesopotamia has lain dormant on clay tablets for more than 2000 years. Breathing new life into this literature through the art of oral storytelling is the ZIPANG mission

Mission Statement

The ZIPANG vision inspires the ZIPANG mission. ZIPANG is the Sumerian word for 'breath'.

The ZIPANG mission is undertaken by the Enheduanna Society, an education charity founded in 2002. To fulfil this mission, the Enheduanna Society:

• provides ZIPANG storytellers booked for public and private events organised by others

• publishes retold stories from ancient Iraq

• passes on Mesopotamian stories and storytelling skills to a new generation of ZIPANG storytellers

• promotes and organises ZIPANG storytelling activities for all ages and abilities

• brings together Iraqi and non-Iraqi scholars, storytellers, musicians and enthusiasts to develop their shared appreciation of Mesopotamian literature, and spread this appreciation to as many people as possible.

The ZIPANG storytellers depend for their performance material on the work of academic translators and teachers.

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Call for papers: Special Issue "Animals in Ancient Material Cultures (vol. 1)"

Call for papers: Special Issue "Animals in Ancient Material Cultures (vol. 1)"

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A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752). This special issue belongs to the section "Visual Arts".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 February 2020

   

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter E-Mail Website
Guest Editor

1. Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Ancient History, University of Groningen, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands
2. Former Visiting Research Scholar and Curator, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: Ptolemaic history; Hellenistic queenship; iconography; ideology; syncretistic religion; animals in antiquity; museum archaeology
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Dr. Chiara Cavallo E-Mail Website
Guest Editor

Senior Lecturer, Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: zooarchaeology; human–animal relations; animal remains; archaeology; Romanization; subsistence strategies; ecology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Ever since the Neolithic domestication, animals have been part of everyday human life, imagination, and religion. In antiquity, many human pursuits, from plowing the field to fighting on the battlefield, from consumption of food to sacrificing to the gods, were shaped by, and relied upon, a symbiotic or interdependent relationship with animals. Animals were hunted or tamed, kept for entertainment or even worshipped. Material culture provides important evidence as representations and illustrations, expressions and mediations of ancient ideas and attitudes about, as well as experiences and interactions with the animal world which surrounded them. Iconographic representations may, for instance, reflect social status as much as religious practices. Such imagery can offer visual clues for the dissemination of animal husbandry as well as for beliefs in mythic creatures.

The theme of this Special Issue, "Animals in Ancient Material Cultures", broadly includes the Mediterranean world and the Near East, from ca. 10,000 ʙᴄᴇ to 500 ᴄᴇ (although exceptions in period or region may be considered). Approaching this subject from a broad chronological and geographical perspective allows the contributors to focus on a specific region, period, animal, and/or creature. Papers may draw on (zoo-)archaeological, physical, visual, and/or cultural material to examine the dispersal and exchange, appropriation, and acculturation of practices and beliefs. This Special Issue aims to bring together specialists from different fields of expertise, including but not limited to art history, ancient history, classics, classical archaeology, and zooarchaeology. Proposed subjects comprise topics such as pastoralism, human–animal relations, iconography, and cultic practices.

The principal purpose of this first volume is to bring together a collection of papers associated with two separate conferences on animals in antiquity, namely, "The Living World of Animals in Antiquity", a panel organized by Sian Lewis and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones at the Eighth Celtic Conference in Classics, on 25–28 June 2014, at the University of Edinburgh, and "Animals in Ancient Material Cultures", organized by the undersigned at the Allard Pierson Museum, on 15–16 October 2015. Contributions are invited for a second volume on the same subject.

Dr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter
Dr. Chiara Cavallo
Guest Editors

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Arts is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Monsters of Military Might: Elephants in Hellenistic History and Art

by Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter

Arts 2019, 8(4), 160; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040160 - 04 Dec 2019

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Elephants were first deployed in warfare by Indian and Persian armies. The Greco-Macedonian troops first encountered these fearsome creatures in battle during the campaign of Alexander the Great. Subsequently, the Successors and later Hellenistic rulers similarly used elephants in battle. From this time, [...] Read more.

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Open Access Journal: Saldvie: Estudios de prehistoria y arqueología

[First posted in AWOL 6 February 2017, updated 23 December 2019]

Saldvie: Estudios de prehistoria y arqueología

ISSN: 1576-6454

Salduie welcomes interdisciplinary research and studies throughout the field of classics. 

The submission of manuscripts is preferred in Spanish but any other official language of the European Union can be considered. Articles should not exceed (including acknowledgements, references, tables and all figure and table captions) 40 pages (90 000 characters). The proportion of the text and the quantity of images/graphics within it is of the author’s/authors’ choice. 

The papers published in Salduie express exclusively the opinion of their authors not of the editors of the journal.

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Open Access Journal: Acta Academiae Antiquitatis Kiotoensis (The Kyoto Journal of Ancient History) 西洋古代史研究

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Online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women

[First posted in AWOL 15 April 2013, updated 22 December 2019 (new URLs)]

Online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women

Ann R. Raia & Judith Lynn Sebesta

In Memoriam: Barbara F. McManus 1942-2015

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Guides, Syllabi, Bibliography

WORLDS Texts, Commentary, Images  

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Open Access Journal: Sinaiticus: The Bulletin of the Saint Catherine Foundation

 [First posted in AWOL August 2012, updated 21 December 2019]

Sinaiticus: The Bulletin of the Saint Catherine Foundation

The Saint Catherine Foundation and its associated organisations in New York and Geneva support conservation work at Saint Catherine's Monastery.

The Saint Catherine Foundation is a UK-registered charity (charity number 1053138) established in 1996. The royal patron is HRH The Prince of Wales.

The American Associates of the Saint Catherine Foundation is a tax-exempt public charity incorporated in the United States in 1997. HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan is Honorary Patron.

The Swiss Friends of the Saint Catherine Foundation was established in Geneva in 1999 as a Swiss-registered tax-exempt charity. The Honorary Members are His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai; His Excellency Joseph Roduit, Abbot of Saint-Maurice; Dean Nicolas Zufferey, University of Geneva; and Prince Hussein Toussoun.

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Numismatics News: 1200 Hellenistic monograms posted to PELLA, and OCRE updates

1200 Hellenistic monograms posted to PELLA, and OCRE updates

As part of the larger NEH-funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, we have published over 1200 monograms (and open access SVGs) to PELLA through a new spreadsheet import mechanism in Numishare that is very much like the one we use for IDs in Nomisma. I have also updated the monograms for RIC 10 that had been published to OCRE already.

http://numismatics.org/pella/symbols

http://numismatics.org/ocre/symbols

The data model follows recent agreements for crm:P106_is_composed_of for constituent letters and crm:P165i_is_incorporated_in for 1 or more digital images, as also recommended by the CIDOC CRM sig. Non-monograms are E37_Mark.

 

 

We haven't connected PELLA monograms to Price Alexander coin types yet, but that will be coming pretty soon. You can, however, take a look at what's possible in OCRE (http://numismatics.org/ocre/symbol/monogram.ric.10.marcian.1), with a monogram displaying a map of related mints and a list of coin types.

The /symbols interface has a very simple system of selecting constituent letters, e.g., http://numismatics.org/pella/symbols?symbol=%CE%A0&symbol=%CE%A3

I plan to build something more sophisticated in Nomisma.org that utilizes SPARQL of monograms aggregated from disparate datasets which will also allow more complex queries based on mint, authority, etc. based on connections between monograms and coin types (including geographic visualization).

 

This is the first step of facilitating some major research questions in Greek numismatics.

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